Querelle pour une paroisse

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Querelle pour une paroisse
Abstract
In 1866, Montreal's Bishop Bourget proposed breaking up the "Parish of Notre Dame," which since the days of New France was the sole Catholic parish on the island of Montreal, into smaller neighbourhood parish churches. Under this model, all Catholics in a neighbourhood - French-speaking and English-speaking - would attend the same neighbourhood church. Father Patrick Dowd (1813-1891), the parish priest of St. Patrick's Church, fought against this proposal, stating that the Irish community wanted its own parish churches so that they "may meet in peace to worship God; without being reminded, each time, that they are a minority, and that, by right, the second place is theirs." By 1870, Bourget's idea was revised to allow two linguistic churches to share the same territory.
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Mémoires des Montréalais
Date
02 juin 2017
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fr
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Noël, Julie. “Querelle pour une paroisse.” Mémoires des Montréalais. Last modified juin 2017. https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/memoiresdesmontrealais/querelle-pour-une-paroisse.
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